Wax Your Guns?

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This is the wax these days.
It is very big with the custom knife makers as a final protective coating. Safe on all materials that can benefit from a final protective coating.
It does not make things slippery.

Many custom use it especially before they display their knives at shows. That way the knives can be handled and they don't have to worry about acid fingerprints. They use it on blued, carbon steel and especially Damascus blades.

It's archival & neutral PH.
GREAT for sword and Machete blades.
Great on wood grips, gun-stocks, ivory, all metals & leather.
It's the one that many museums use.
You can find it in lots of places like "art supply stores" - the woodworker and lathe turner catalogs and also on Ebay. Ebay is probably the quickest and easiest way to find it.
Buy the small one because a little bit goes a long way.

This is the wax these days.
It is very big with the custom knife makers as a final protective coating. Safe on all materials that can benefit from a final protective coating.
It does not make things slippery.

Many custom use it especially before they display their knives at shows. That way the knives can be handled and they don't have to worry about acid fingerprints. They use it on blued, carbon steel and especially Damascus blades.

It's archival & neutral PH.
GREAT for sword and Machete blades.
Great on wood grips, gun-stocks, ivory, all metals & leather.
It's the one that many museums use.
You can find it in lots of places like "art supply stores" - the woodworker and lathe turner catalogs and also on Ebay. Ebay is probably the quickest and easiest way to find it.
Buy the small one because a little bit goes a long way.

I bought mine from MidwayUSA. I have mainly used it for protecting some of my case hardened guns from the sun and from handling.

Absolutely! I use the wax from Crayola crayons (the real ones, not the cheap knock offs). Strip the paper off and you can lay them flat to rub the entire gun down quickly. It's also pretty cool to see the contrast of the colors (where it fills in checking and grooves) against the dark metal on most of my firearms.

Absolutely! I use the wax from Crayola crayons (the real ones, not the cheap knock offs). Strip the paper off and you can lay them flat to rub the entire gun down quickly. It's also pretty cool to see the contrast of the colors (where it fills in checking and grooves) against the dark metal on most of my firearms.

Didn't Crayola have a contest recently and one of the new colors was 'gun metal gray'?
I can hear it now in the art/drawing class
Make that Ruger look like a Ruger...

Last edited by GBS; October 25th, 2007 at 05:55 PM.
Reason: clarity if not brevity

The wax that I pretty much use for everything is called Dorland's Wax Medium.
It's actually an oil painting product but, is really just neutral Ozokerite Fossil Wax, resin, and oils in a petroleum distillate.
Yes, there really IS natural fossil Earth wax.
It's a bit tougher to find but, it serves the same purpose as the above.

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